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Computing Bisimilarity Metrics for Probabilistic Timed Automata

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We are interested in describing timed systems that exhibit probabilistic behaviour and in evaluating their behavioural discrepancies. To this purpose, we consider probabilistic timed automata, we introduce a concept of n-bisimilarity metric and give an algorithm to decide it.

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    Recall that probabilities and \(d_{{\mathsf {G}}}(z)\) are rationals.

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Lanotte, R., Tini, S. (2019). Computing Bisimilarity Metrics for Probabilistic Timed Automata. In: Ahrendt, W., Tapia Tarifa, S. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34968-4_17

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